On Not Being Someone Else
On Not Being Someone Else "To be someone--to be anyone--is about...not being someone else. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities."…
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On Not Being Someone Else
"To be someone--to be anyone--is about...not being someone else. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities." --New YorkerWe live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling." --Adam Phillips "A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones.
But what if you'd gone the other way?From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe consider the roads not taken, the lives we haven't led. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children--every decision precludes another. What is it that compels us to identify with fictional and poetic voices
On Not Being Someone Else
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